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Spirit Airlines - I don't think so...

Well, my cousin Ariana is getting married in December in Mexico. We're going down to the wedding and started looking at airfare. I saw that Spirit Air could get us there for under $400/person. Wow, what a deal. My wife made a comment about them canceling flights lately, including her sister's recent 24hour wait to visit home. I told her I thought it was NWA that she flew but she indicated that it was indeed Spirit Air that she booked her flight on.

Based on this discussion I decided to do a lookup on Spirit Air. I came across Alex Rudloff's blog. I followed some of the additional links and stories. I also went to some non-blog websites based on my initial google search.

After reading all these reports and what I learned about their customer service I really don't think I'll trust Spirit Airlines to get me to Mexico on time. And if they didn't I don't think I'll trust them to make it right. I don't necessarily agree with some of the people that expected money not paid to the airline but the overall experience of people entrusting their travel to Spirit Air was excreble. And the CEO of Spirit Air certainly doesn't seem interested in changing things.

I guess I'm paying more for my airfare but I expect I'll be able to make the wedding without too much issue.

How Many of Me?

I went to this website because of an email that went around. Kinda interesting...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 449 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Apple TV 2.0 vs. Blu-Ray, DVD & HD Cable: The Comparison

I saw this article and thought it was pretty good. Admittedly it came from a iPod/Mac/Apple site but seems to be fair. There're a fair amount of pix from the various media discussed to allow you to judge for yourself.

Enjoy,
HutcH

DVD Inventory/Wishlist

I've been using a DVD Inventory program called DVD Profiler. In the last year the website/name changed from Intervocative to Invelos. I've been using it for about 3 years now, maybe 4. What's really slick is that you just enter the UPC code from the DVD packaging and it enters it quickly into a record. There are 3 categories, Owned, Ordered, and Wishlist. And of course you can easily move from Wishlist to Ordered to Owned, if you're really anal. I almost never follow all of the stages. The only downfall that I see is that it only runs on Windows, not Linux. Oh well.

One of the features that I really like is that I can backup my list (not all data, though, there's a backup database for that) to their website. And it formats it for easy perusing with a webbrowser but you can't make changes. Here's a link to mine... http://www.invelos.com/dvdcollection.aspx/HutcHJC

Oh yeah!!! It's free to use. There are limitations with the free version. You don't get high-def cover scans, but you can save your own. And you can only sync about 600 or so up to their website. However, it's only $30 for all the features.

Check it out!!